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InnsbruckIl pomo d'oro
Cesti: The Golden Apple (Il pomo d'oro)
Ottavio Dantone; Fabio Ceresa; Street Motion Studio; Nikolaus Webern; Giuseppe Palella; George Tellos; Accademia Bizantina
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A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria
Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually striking, but oddly subdued, take on a comedy that thrives on chaos.
Siroe, Re di Persia: a majestic and true-to-form Karlsruhe revival
Ulrich Peters' 2024 production justifies the artistic value of Handel’s unjustly neglected opera and the literary value of Metastasio's libretto.
Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: galley trip of the newlyweds
The singer-actors of this lively Neapolitan opera are entangled in a farcical plot in the Teatro alla Scala's revival of the genre.
Pure entertainment from early opera: La finta pazza
Extraordinary singing and acting from Mariana Flores stands out in a joyous concert performance of one of the first operas ever written.
A bizarre Berenice at the Halle Handel Festival
A post post-modern production of Berenice threw distraction upon distraction at the audience, but was saved by good singing and orchestral playing.
Giulio Cesare in concert: Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth came, saw and conquered Vienna
An outstanding cast under Ottavio Dantone at the Theater an der Wien was headed by Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth.
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VersaillesStabat Mater from Versailles
Pergolesi, Vivaldi
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Versailles; Marie Van Rhijn; Samuel Mariño; Filippo Mineccia